It comes this way!

EdTheHeaterMan

Don't oil burners come out of the box already properly adjusted?


Before you criticize the installer, Look at the top left portion of the furnace!

Steamhead

I'm not a scorched-air guy by any means- but I'd have to be very drunk to think that was OK. The same might be true of the inspector.

In both cases- You can't fix stupid!

And I'll bet that approval sticker will make it difficult for you to sell and install the correct model................

EdTheHeaterMan

I told the owner that I won't fix the oil leak I was originally called to fix unless the burner is made right. I sent the landlord a picture of the page in the instructions manual and before and after pics of the burner. Cost him at least 1/3 of the price of there original install.

It's right now!

Yours truly
Ed

Steamhead

How about posting the "after" pic here? I know we all know what you did, but there are those out there who will need to actually see it.....

mattmia2

side draft?

HVACNUT

That was shipped for horizontal installation but I guess the installer thought otherwise. Silly Rabbit.

BDR529

I get dizzy looking at it!

STEVEusaPA

I don't see a hole for a combustion test lol.
And you know that pump strainer is never getting changed

EdTheHeaterMan

Steamhead said:

How about posting the "after" pic here? I know we all know what you did, but there are those out there who will need to actually see it.....

This is why I was Called:

This is what I Found:

This is how I left it

Not a fan of the refrigerant line going in front of the oil burner, but the customer has a budget.
The leak was in the compression fitting at the oil filter outside. New fuel line, and rotate the burner properly.

EdTheHeaterMan

STEVEusaPA said:

I don't see a hole for a combustion test lol.
And you know that pump strainer is never getting changed

There is a hole in the vent connector. It is on the other side where it is hard to see
STRAINER? Who needs a stinkin' strainer? Don't we throw them away after they clog?

jumper

Well horizontal furnaces can be installed vertically for "upside down" applications?

Intplm.

EdTheHeaterMan said:

Don't oil burners come out of the box already properly adjusted?


Before you criticize the installer, Look at the top left portion of the furnace!

@EdTheHeaterMan No?! No....is that a approval inspection notice from a inspector?
The pics a bit blurry. Holy S**T !

rick in Alaska

STEVEusaPA said:

I don't see a hole for a combustion test lol.
And you know that pump strainer is never getting changed

Off topic for this post, but I see this quite often on this site. Is your fuel that bad where you are, or is it because your tanks re buried and just old.
I do not know of anyone who has changed a pump screen here, and I have personally only ever changed about a dozen pumps in 27 years. We just don't see sludge here very often. If it is, it is in a fuel tank in one of the low budget mobile home parks where the people sometimes are only putting in about 50 gallons at a time, and letting too much water accumulate.
So I guess my question is this; Are you guys just dealing with old fuel tanks that are just sludged up, or is it bad fuel to start with?
Rick

EdTheHeaterMan

There are a lot of really old tanks. starting with the refineries to the bulk plants to the homeowner tanks and the summer heat can cause more condensation inside the tanks. especially when the tanks are left below 1/4 of a tank for 5 months in a row.

Ironman

Is that cardboard between the furnace and the coil cabinet? If so, that inspector needs to be fired.

HVACNUT

That's what happens when cost alone is the deciding factor.

EdTheHeaterMan

@Ironman I never looked at your observation about Cardboard. It is metal. I believe the contractor used the old Singer or York combustible floor base. That tan color is definitely metal